Quotes About Conflict

There are those here who believe they are right simply because they oppose something that is evil.

Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree on the details of what has happened or is going to happen. But we rarely know what has happened, and we never know what is going to happen. What is really at dispute is how we will deal with not knowing.

An explosion groans to the west of them, and Arrow involuntarily looks in the direction of the sound. Nermin, who hasn't looked, smiles. 'I think they're trying to send us a message.' 'What is the message?' she asks as another shell lands in the same area. Nermin shrugs. 'I don't know. I'm making a special effort not to listen.

But Arrow believes they took these names so they could separate themselves from what they had to do, so the person who fought and killed could someday be put away.

Why is it easier to get men to go to war than to see a counselor?

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

Unfortunately, empathy often falls by the wayside because when we need it most, we're least open to using it—that is, when we're under stress, misunderstood, irritated, or defensive.

To uncover the plot of your story, don't ask what should happen, but what should go wrong. To uncover the meaning of your story, don't ask what the theme is, but rather, what is discovered. Characters making choices to resolve tension—that's your plot. If your protagonist has no goal, makes no choices, has no struggle to overcome, you have no plot.

External struggles ignite reader interest and curiosity while internal and interpersonal struggles engender empathy.

To uncover the plot of your story, don't ask what should happen, but what should go wrong. To uncover the meaning of your story, don't ask what the theme is, but rather, what is discovered. Characters making choices to resolve tension—that's your plot.

Justice doesn't always have clean hands, and we all have dark desires clawing at our wills.

These three nations are known as the Axis powers. The Allies will do all they can do to stop the Axis powers. The Allies are the United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, China, and those fighting with them.

In 1938 Hitler began to put his plans into action. In March Germany took control of Austria. By October, it occupied neighboring Czechoslovakia. When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. In April 1940 German troops occupied Denmark and attacked Norway. The following month Germany invaded Belgium and the Netherlands.

The triumphs of the crusades were the triumphs of faith. But faith without wisdom is a dangerous thing.

What price peace?

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

The struggle in the seventh century between Roman missionaries and Irish monks for control over the English church was largely a conflict over the date of Easter.

I've been getting into astronomy, so I installed a skylight. The people who live above me are furious.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

It is like putting a dehumidifier and a humidifier in the same room and letting them fight it out.